Improvement in ruffle-guides-and band-folders for sewing-machines



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dnne Siate ELI-I AH LEAVITT HOWARD, OF MALDEN, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE AUGUSTUS WHITINGOF OHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No, 113,669, dated April 11, 1871.

IMPRQVEMENT IN'Ruil'i-'LE-GulneslAND BAND-Forums' Fon SEWING-MACHINES,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making paxt of the saine.

-To all persons to whom these presents may-come 1 Beit known that I, ELIJAH 'LEavITT HOWARD, of Maldeu, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Runde- Band Folder, for use with a sewing-machine; endl' do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the ac v together in front of the channel d, so as to form be: tween them another channel or space, e', to receive companying drawing, of whichv Figure lis a top view; g

. Figure 2, a front elevation Figure 3, a rear elevation Figure 4,. a rear end view, and Figure 5,a frontend view of it; Figure'G is a top view; and Figure 7, a rear side elevation of it with a doublebanded rutile extended through it. A

lThe apparatus 'or implement constituting my invention is intended to bend over and laytogether two bands stitched to a rude laid between them.

A transverse section of' the two bands andfth ruile as they appeal' on emanating from a machine -for ruiing or corrugating a band, and sewing it to two others, is shown in Figure 8,'in which- 'A denotes the rnde, and

B C the bands selived to it. The hem of the ruieaud the two bands are shown at a. i

The 'folder is designed to receive the tw'o `bands B C, the hem a, and the ruide, and turn the bands from the ruie, and lay one band -on the'other with the hem between them, all as shown in Figure 9.

The bands and ruie as they come from the ruing and sewing-machine are stitched together, as shown at b, (see fig. 8.) They, after passing through the folder,.receive another row ofstitching, asshown at 'The folder is formedof a plate, D, of metal, bent at its middle so as to make thereat a channel, d,ffor reception of the hem a, after which each of the two halves or parts of the plate is' doubled on itself, in

manner as shown at e f in figs. 4 and 5, a space, g,

being left between` the doublings e f to receive a band, B or O. v

-The doubled part-s have their edges brought nearly the ruiide near its junction with the two bands B O.

' v nThe' two band-guides or holders D D, consisting of the parts ef ej, arranged ai described, are curved, and converge toward one another in manner as shown in the drawing, and one of them is to be provided with or be xed to an ear or plate, E, arranged as shown,

the said ear or plate being to enable the'folder to he fixed to the bed-plate of a sewing-machiueor to a table or bench, as occasion may require.

The application of the ruie and its bands tothe folder for the purpose of having the bands folded upon one another, or one upon the other, is shown in tigs.

As the ruffle and its bands may be drawn through the folder the bands will be turned back from the scribed and represented, viz.,of the two bandguides D D, the hem-guide or channel d, and the ruffleguide or passage e,- all arranged and formed substan-v tially as shown and explained.

ELIJAH LEAVIT'! HOWARD.

Witnesses: R. E. EDDY,

J. R. Snow. 

